Enewsletter

At
James Madison University
today, Aashish Bhimani and I handed
out over 1200 copies of Even
If You Like Meat. We had at
least an 80% acceptance rate, lots
of people thanking us for being
there, etc. Aashish overheard someone
telling his friend how he really
liked that it wasn't an all or nothing
approach, concluding that he felt
he could actually do something about
cruelty to animals.-Jon Camp, 11/14/05

Notes from Vegan
Outreach

Records Galore!

Already
in 2005, Vegan Outreach has
sent over over 710,000
copies of our booklets -- nearly
100,000 more than all of 2004!

Adopt
a College activists
have also already smashed the previous
one-semester
total, with dozens of activists
having handed nearly 135,000
booklets directly to students!

Each one of these booklets has
the potential to create much change
-- being read by and shared with
the consumers, voters, and leaders
of tomorrow.

Housecleaning Notes

As the holidays approach, much
of your internet shopping can
help print more copies of Why
Vegan, Even If...,
and Vegan Outreach's other booklets.
You can start here;
GreaterGood
and iGive
serve as portals to most large
internet shops.

Every week, several people e-mail
to ask why they didn't receive
the latest e-newsletter. It seems
that, over time, some ISPs are
filtering our mailings as bulk.
Look for a new edition every Wednesday
-- if you don't receive it, check
your deleted items or junk mail
folders, and be sure to add "enewsletter
(at) veganoutreach.org" to
your address book. Thanks!

Products of the
Week

MacKenzie Barrett
writes: "If you miss peanut
butter cups, try the 'Beanit Butter
Cup Mix' from Dixie
Diners' Club. It comes
as a mix, and makes 25 small size
peanut butter cups that taste just
like the ones I used to buy before
becoming vegan!"

And if looking for
a holiday treat for a new vegan
or budding activist, keep Meat
Market in mind.
VegNews said: "Erik
Marcus' Meat Market radically
redefines what it means to be an
effective animal advocate in the
21st century."

Notes from All
Over

excerpt: "Although
Ben Acaso had heard a little bit
about how animals were raised in
factory farms, it wasn't until reading
Matthew Ball’s essay A
Meaningful Life that
Ben decided to focus his time and
energy advocating on behalf of farmed
animals.… Ben has distributed
thousands of pamphlets raising awareness
on the plight of animals raised
for food, distributing nearly 2,000
pamphlets at local colleges this
semester alone! Ben is kept motivated
by his many encounters with people
who have gone veg after reading
one of these pamphlets. 'The small
time commitment [of distributing
pamphlets] brings a huge payoff,'
says Ben. 'With every person who
decides to reduce or eliminate animal
products from their diets, thousands
of animals can be spared from the
horrors of factory farms.'"

Notes from Our
Members

I
recently got this message from a
friend: "You
know, I was handed this booklet
on animals and how they are processed
for the purposes of food consumption,
and it's terrible. I understand
why you do what you do, and I respect
it a great deal."-Ryan A. MacMichael,
Leesburg, VA,, 10/31/05

At right, Nick "The Friendly
Giant" Lesiecki leaflets at
San Jose State; picture by Suzanne
Haws.

I am a student at Mount
San Antonio College
in Walnut, CA, and yesterday, I
stopped by a booth on my campus
where they were handing out a booklet
titled Even If You Like Meat.
I found the booklet to be quite
educational because it made me aware
of the cruelty that animals such
as pigs, birds, and turkeys go through
in order for us humans to survive
so to speak. Obviously, we have
other alternatives to eating meat,
but we ignore them. All of the pictures
shown in the booklet are very disturbing,
because we are neglecting animals,
who cannot speak for themselves.
Now, I am very interested in becoming
a veggie for the sake of these animals.
-GG, 11/11/05

Today
at Indiana U of PA,
I handed out 600 Even Ifs,
and a few Guides.
At one point, a man a little distance
away was loudly saying: "Brochure
on animal cruelty on paper that
destroyed wildlife?" Before
he could go on, I quickly walked
over to him and in a calm and friendly
manner stated, "Sir, these
booklets were printed on recycled
paper with soy ink. And just so
you know what this is about, here,"
handing him a booklet. He got embarrassed
and said he was just joking around
(which was a lie), and I said it
was no problem whatsoever Dale Carnegie
would have classified this as the
virtue of letting others save face).
The guy ended up staying there while
his friends dispersed, reading the
booklet quite intensely for at least
five to ten minutes and left reading
the booklet.
I remember
reading an interview with the late
AR activist Henry Spira, in which
he said that his goal was to "push
the peanut forward." While
I think that we all do this each
time we get out and do this work,
some days we sense it more than
others. Today I felt like it was
pushed forward quite substantially.-Jon Camp, 11/4/05

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